Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday 13 February 2011 22:10:42 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote
> 
> > did you add alsasound to the boot process?
> > 
> > i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone
> > until i realised that i forgot to do that!
> > 
> > also unmute the microphones using alsamixer (in alsa-utils) like
> > Hung sugested.
> 
>   I had already unmuted everything before posting my question.  With
> enough microphone boost, I have a hissing noise.  I didn't know about
> alsasound being a daemon until today.  With alsasound running, mencoder
> and ffmpeg and arecord now *THINK* that they are recording a sound
> channel.  That's an "improvement", because they used to say "noaudio"
> before.  But still nothing gets recorded.  Here is a sample command I
> tried.
> 
> arecord -f cd -t wav -c 2 -D plughw:0 foobar.wav
> 
>   Maybe I should go and buy an external microphone already.

I do not have your hardware, but on my laptop I could not get the microphone 
to work until I switched on the digital capture and selected "Digital" under 
Input Source in alsamixer.  For some reason it would not work with any other 
setting.
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Regards,
Mick

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